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Torpedo-boat Destroyer

Definition: Torpedo-boat Destroyer

Torpedo-boat Destroyer

Noun

1. Small destroyer that was the forerunner of modern destroyers; designed to destroy torpedo boats.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Photo Album: Torpedo-boat Destroyer

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Color-tinted postcard of a photograph copyrighted by Enrique Muller, 1905. It shows Topeka at anchor in Long Island Sound, New York, circa 1904. Ships present in the background include USS Prairie (left) and a torpedo-boat destroyer (right). Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Modern Translation: Torpedo-boat Destroyer

Language Translations for "torpedo-boat destroyer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

torpedóromboló (destroyer). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

orpedo-boattay estroyerday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Alternative Orthography: Torpedo-boat Destroyer


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 6F 72 70 65 64 6F 2D 62 6F 61 74      44 65 73 74 72 6F 79 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101111 01110010 01110000 01100101 01100100 01101111 00101101 01100010 01101111 01100001 01110100 00100000 01000100 01100101 01110011 01110100 01110010 01101111 01111001 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#111 &#114 &#112 &#101 &#100 &#111 &#45 &#98 &#111 &#97 &#116 &#32 &#68 &#101 &#115 &#116 &#114 &#111 &#121 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 0072 0070 0065 0064 006F 002D 0062 006F 0061 0074      0044 0065 0073 0074 0072 006F 0079 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5481848271708115688167862387185868481917184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Translations: Modern
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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